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Martha Crawford, Operations Manager for the Good Jobs Campaign, is responsible for managing the training programmes that we run with employer and education institution partners. Since joining Citizens UK in November 2015, Martha has worked hard to oversee the direction of the Good Jobs Campaign from its early stages.

Being a part of Maun Valley Citizens provides more opportunities for your institution than you might think. Here is what comes with membership:

Bespoke Community Leadership Training - taught by fully-trained organisers for over 20 years, your institution receives free unlimited places on local two-day training courses, run ~3 times a year, and a Newman University accredited six-day national course.

Participation in Neighbourhood, Maun Valley-wide and UK-Wide campaigns - your members are welcome to join our existing strategy teams, which are using a well-practised method to win change on Homelessness, Loneliness, Welcome and Fair Work in Maun Valley.

The Time and Support of Professional Citizens UK Community Organisers - working with the interests of each member institution at heart, your members will be able to meet Bradley, our organiser, to develop as leaders and explore opportunities to participate across the alliance.

Connections with other Local Institutions with Similar Values - we are a diverse, growing alliance with an especially large contingent of schools, and you will be able to build relationships with these institutions and to work together for the common good.

Interested?

Contact Bradley, our Organiser, on bradley.myers@citizensuk.org or 07494787254 to find out more or to discuss how much membership might cost. We hope you will find worth in joining our powerful alliance!

Members of London Citizens in South and East London celebrated today as the Mayor of London announced a programme to pilot bringing forward small publicly-owned sites to boost the capital’s small homebuilders sector.

The two biggest sites are guaranteed to be 100% community land trust (CLT) homes.

This will mean 60 more families living in a genuinely and permanently affordable CLT homes, priced according to local incomes. Those families will no longer have to choose between overcrowded, indecent living conditions or leaving their friends, family and community for good.

Following on from our post earlier this week on young Muslim women and the Good Jobs Campaign, meet Sanna Shabir, 22, from East London, who is an Engineering Technician working at Atkins Global, a leading Design, Engineering and Project Management consultancy.

Bushra Dunne, 17, helped launch the migrant youth-led Stand Up Stand Out campaign to address the problems of media reporting and treatment of both refugees and ethnic minority women in the UK. She feels that some of the current news narratives are feeding not only misunderstanding but acts of hate crime. She currently lives and attends school in London after moving from Newcastle. Here, she provides more insight into the background of the campaign and its work for change.

Reshma, 20, a student at the University of Westminster, is doing a placement at Citizens UK as part of their Good Jobs Campaign. To mark #100years since women got the vote, Reshma discusses the role of the campaign in providing opportunities for young Muslim women and how there's still some way to go before women across society are treated fairly and equally.

100 years since the extension of the franchise to 8 million women, CitizensUK is featuring interviews all week with the women campaigners who are fighting social justice and women’s battles facing communities today.

Getting the vote was a was a radical change in progressing the power women hold. It was hard fought over decades of organising, protest and lobbying. Many things have improved since then, but there are still day-to-day injustices that form part of daily life for women leaders in 2018.